> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developers.telnyx.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Pricing

> Telnyx pricing for voice, messaging, phone numbers, wireless, AI inference, networking, and storage — pay-as-you-go rates with volume discounts.

Telnyx pricing is **pay-as-you-go** with volume and committed-use discounts: you pay per unit of usage (per minute, per message, per number, per GB) with no platform fee. Because Telnyx owns and operates its network, rates are typically lower than reseller platforms.

**→ [Full pricing for every product](https://telnyx.com/pricing)**

**→ [Machine-readable pricing for AI agents](https://telnyx.com/pricing.md)** (canonical markdown; JSON at [telnyx.com/ai/pricing.json](https://telnyx.com/ai/pricing.json))

## Plans and tiers

| Tier                    | How it works                                                                                   |
| ----------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Pay-as-you-go           | Default for every account — per-unit rates, no monthly platform fee, no commitment             |
| Volume discounts        | Applied automatically as usage grows                                                           |
| Committed-use contracts | Custom rates for committed monthly spend — via [sales](https://telnyx.com/contact-us)          |
| Free trial              | [Sign up](https://telnyx.com/sign-up) includes trial credit to test any API — no card required |

## Representative rates

Live rates for every product and destination are at [telnyx.com/pricing](https://telnyx.com/pricing); these examples are from the canonical [pricing.md](https://telnyx.com/pricing.md):

| Product         | Example rate                                                                            |
| --------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| SIP trunking    | Outbound from $0.005/min · inbound from $0.0035/min                                     |
| Voice API       | $0.002/min platform fee (plus SIP trunking) · recording $0.002/min                      |
| Voice AI agents | \$0.05/min all-in (SIP + STT + LLM inference + TTS)                                     |
| Messaging       | SMS outbound from \$0.004/msg                                                           |
| Text-to-speech  | Telnyx voices from \$0.000003/char                                                      |
| Speech-to-text  | From $0.007/min (AssemblyAI) · Telnyx $0.015/min                                        |
| AI inference    | Per-token by model, e.g. embeddings \$0.0001/1K tokens                                  |
| Fax             | \$0.007/page, send and receive                                                          |
| Phone numbers   | US local from $1.00/mo (volume tiers from $0.79/mo) · number lookup from \$0.0015/query |

## How billing works by product area

| Product area                           | Billing model                                                            |
| -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Voice (SIP trunking, Voice API, TeXML) | Per-minute rates, inbound/outbound, by destination                       |
| Messaging (SMS, MMS, RCS, WhatsApp)    | Per-message rates by country and sender type                             |
| Phone numbers                          | Monthly recurring charge per number, plus one-time fees where applicable |
| Wireless / IoT SIMs                    | Per-MB data rates with regional zones                                    |
| AI inference and voice AI              | Per-token or per-minute rates by model                                   |
| Networking and storage                 | Per-GB transfer and storage rates                                        |

Mission Control Portal shows real-time usage and per-product billing breakdowns.